When using interactive mode it is possible to specify an empty partition name for the mkpart command. However, when using the --script option an error occurs because it doesn't handle an empty name.
This results in an error: sudo parted --script /dev/xvdf mklabel gpt mkpart '' 'ext2' '0%' '100%' print all This works, but you have to specify a name: sudo parted --script /dev/xvdf mklabel gpt mkpart MyPartName 'ext2' '0%' '100%' print all Ideally I could just specify: sudo parted --script /dev/xvdf mklabel gpt mkpart 'ext2' '0%' '100%' print all and parted would parse the parameters correctly but requiring a '-' or '--' (or whatever) would work too.